Susan B Anthony The Road To Women's Rights

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The Road to Women's Rights and Suffrage Today we have many “rights” which are apart of who we are. Of course, these rights did not come to us easily. Our Founding Father's had to make great sacrifices for us to be where we are today. We had to fight for our freedoms and rights through the war of independence. However, the rights which were won seemed to exclude women. Many women did not like this and they wanted to be equal to men and they fought their own war of independence to receive that right. It started off small, but eventually grew into a big movement. Many average women would be remembered as someone great and their names would shine throughout history. One of these women was one known as Susan Brownell Anthony. Anthony was…show more content…
However, they still put their little differences aside and fought for a common goal. There were many steps taken to receive this goal. One was a action that would shock many people. Susan B. Anthony would cast her very first vote. On November 1, 1872, Anthony and her three sisters decided to resister to vote. Of course, she was rejected at first, but Anthony had fire in her soul and would not take no as an answer. She quoted the Fourteenth Amendment's section about voting. It did not contain a qualification about gender. In the end of the argument, Anthony was victorious and she was registered to vote. When news of this got out, they were warned to not vote, but Anthony did not listen and she cast her vote. This caused her to be arrested and tried in the courts four months later. In the end she was charged one hundred dollars plus the cost of court proceedings. Anthony replied saying, "May it please your honor, I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty.” Elizabeth Cady Stanton died on October 26th, 1902 Susan B. Anthony died on March13, 1906. Although Anthony and Stanton never did see the day in which women would vote, they still…show more content…
They called the president “Kaiser Wilson”. These times caused many people to become quite upset with the suffragists. They believed they were being unpatriotic. Many angry mobs attacked the suffragists and eventually they were arrested for “obstructing traffic”. Although they were sitting in a cold cell, their fight did not end there. They went on hunger strikes and demanded to be treated as political prisoners. However, they were met with violence. All of the suffragists, including the old and weak, were beaten and made to live in unsanitary conditions. However, Ms. Paul and the others would not eat. The prison could not risk a death on their hands and have the suffragists known as martyrs. They decided to make a bold decision—they force fed the prisoners. They did this by taking the women, strapping them to a chair and then they used an appliance to keep their mouth open. After that, they would slide a tube down their throat and on the end their was a funnel in which they poured a raw egg mixture in. This torturous procedure ruined morale for many of the women in the prison, but some still pressed on with their hunger strike. News of the horrendous treatment the women were receiving leaked out. This caused the public to be appalled and they

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